Israel Says It Killed Al Jazeera Journalist, Claiming He Was A Hamas Leader

The Israel Defense Forces said that it killed a man successful Gaza who it claimed was posing arsenic an Al Jazeera journalist, but nan news web said that Anas al-Sharif was a journalist and that he and 4 different unit members were killed successful a targeted Israeli airstrike.

In its coverage, Al Jazeera termed nan killings of al-Sharif and 4 different staffers murder.

The web said that al-Sharif; different journalist, Mohammed Qreiqeh; and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa were killed.

The web reported that they died “in a targeted Israeli onslaught connected a shelter lodging journalists successful Gaza City.”

The Israel Defense Forces claimed that al-Sharif was "the caput of a violent compartment successful nan Hamas violent statement and was responsible for advancing rocket attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF troops."

The IDF said successful a connection astir nan sidesplitting that it had "previously disclosed intelligence accusation and galore documents recovered successful nan Gaza Strip" that it said corroborate that al-Sharif was a personnel of Hamas.

Al Jazeera reported that al-Sharif was a well-known Al Jazeera Arabic analogous who reported extensively from bluish Gaza.

The web said that 10 of its unit person been killed by Israel since Israel launched nan warfare successful Gaza successful 2023.

Israel launched nan violative successful Gaza, targeting Hamas, aft nan Hamas-led panic attacks against Israel connected Oct. 7, 2023, successful which 251 group were taken hostage. Many of nan targets of those Hamas-led attacks were civilians, including a euphony festival, and

Over 61,000 group person been killed successful Gaza since nan violative began, according to nan Palestinian Ministry of Health successful nan enclave.

Al Jazeera is simply a web funded by Qatar's government. Israel's authorities has accused it of biased sum of conflicts and unit involving itself and nan Palestinian territories.

In May 2024, Israel's authorities nether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voted to unopen down nan channel's section offices. Netanyahu astatine nan clip called it an incitement channel.

A Jazeera has many times denied nan allegations of incitement made by Israel.

Israel past week said that it will return power of Gaza City, an escalation of nan war. The move was criticized, and Germany announced that it is suspending nan export to Israel of subject instrumentality that could beryllium utilized successful Gaza.

The Committee to Protect Journalists said that Israel has a longstanding believe of accusing journalists of being terrorists without providing reliable evidence.

It called al-Sharif 1 of Al Jazeera's best-known journalists, who has precocious been reporting connected starvation successful Gaza to a deficiency of assistance allowed successful nan territory.

“Israel’s shape of labeling journalists arsenic militants without providing reliable grounds raises superior questions astir its intent and respect for property freedom,” CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah said successful a statement. “Journalists are civilians and must ne'er beryllium targeted. Those responsible for these killings must beryllium held accountable.”

After an IDF spokesperson accused al-Sharif of being affiliated pinch Hamas' subject helping successful July, al-Sharif told nan CPJ that he was being retaliated against for news sum that made Israel look bad.

"All of this is happening because my sum of nan crimes of nan Israeli business successful nan Gaza Strip harms them and damages their image successful nan world. They impeach maine of being a violent because nan business wants to assassinate maine morally," al-Sharif told nan CPJ then.